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.

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.

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.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Dare to research on the originality of any information.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Ladies, apologies, but isn't 'vintage' just used stuff?

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.