Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Nothing is impossible to the man who will
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.
Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style. . . Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style overlap, sometimes they don't.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.