"Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good."

“You can't give if your cup of inspiration isn't full.”

“At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.”

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

“Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.”

“Just having a great product won't take you anywhere.”

“I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.”

Source : "Ornette Coleman: What I've Learned" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2009.

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”

“There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.”