A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Great art changes you.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

I am going to give you my heart now, " I whispered. "Please don't break it again.

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.