Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

Roy Ayers

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Albert Einstein

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

George Edward Woodberry

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Tammy Baldwin

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

Eddie Van Halen

In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass