"My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life."

"I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time."

"As Americans, there are very few things we have confidence in."

"California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores."

"I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure."

"Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings."

"Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit."

"Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families."

"In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you."

"Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)"

"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)"

"Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium"

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."

"Mingle a dash of folly with your wisdom."

"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix. (Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back, Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)"

"Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)"

"You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain."

"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. (Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)"

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

"If you can realistically render a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?"

"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."

"A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone."

"Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance."

"As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."