The best form of flattery is to be admired imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Rationalism is the enemy of art though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking when my anger was aroused I grabbed the nearest brick rock or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

When Maurice touched a keyboard it was like something from a movie magical. He would always give you something from a movie and you'd go what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.