The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

My mother was very protective of her four boys.