Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

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.

We are a new creation by God’s grace.

...you are different from me, because you want to realize your dreams, I just want to dream...I'm afraid it will all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream...

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.