A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

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.

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

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

Come out, come out, wherever you are... come out, come out, or you'll end up in the tar...

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Don't Just Do Something: Stand There. Don't Just Stand There: Do Something.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Enzo get up you're making me look bad.

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home when it comes to Wearing what you like.

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

Even if you're a guy and you don't believe in dancing, you should try dance cardio. It's really fun!

I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.