There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Harry S Truman

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Thomas Jefferson

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

Stacey Farber

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Giacomo Casanova

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

Edward Snowden

Skeptics are never deceived.

Proverb

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

Frank Luntz

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Stephen Bayley