Failure is a signpost on the trail to success

You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate

Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business .

Creativity is salve for the soul

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

Good" now is better than "Best" never.

Discovery's friend is creativity

Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed.

The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.