The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

Biology transcends society.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

When you are eager to serve the world, the universe will be eager to serve you.

I MET MY SOUL, IT WAS WRITTEN IN A LANGUAGE KNOWN TO BE TONED FOR DARKNESS BUT LIGHT IN TRUTH

Success-minded people need to understand that the small voice inside them is there for a reason.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

I would love to have a drink with Meryl Streep or Prince. Those are my top two people I would love to talk to.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.