Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart.

When the heart says “yes” it is difficult for the mind to say “no.

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.