Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.