"High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought."

“It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.”

“I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.”

“A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.”

“To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

“Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.”

Source : "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

“Global warming is such a politically charged issue that we are losing our perspective on the issue and more importantly losing an open forum from which to discuss the issue. If we lose the right or comfort level to openly discuss and debate this issue we will not be able to tackle it efficiently and economically.”