CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Henri Matisse

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

John Sununu

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.

Stephenie Meyer

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan Macy

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Oscar Levant

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fiona Shaw

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Ricky Williams