Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end 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.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100

What I dream of is an art of balance.

That's going to be the biggest problem, to make people feel like it's cool for them to like my music.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.