We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

I was raised on NBC television.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.