Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

How does Rudolph know when Christmas is coming? He looks at his calen-deer!