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

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

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.

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

People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.

Come now and let us reason together.

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

The one thing Cristiano Ronaldo has is pace, quick feet and a great eye for goal.

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.