Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

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.

Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.