Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

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.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

The master creators are masters of love.

We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.

Poets find truth by writing about what they love.