Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

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.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

Wolves hate farewells.

Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.

Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.