Look at this charming donkey!

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.

Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.