It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

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 am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.