I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

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.

The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall.

Embrace your struggles. They are making you the person you were meant to be.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because he can lure people in, it's easier.

Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.