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.

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.

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.

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

It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain.

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today

There are no monsters, Doctor, ' she spluttered.Yeah, There are, ' he said. 'Some of them are just better at hiding than others. And then there are the ones we wouldn't know if we saw them.

The most beautiful part is the traveling, and getting to know different cultures and different types of people and to perform in very, very important venues in each country.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.

It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.