To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

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.

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.

Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.

No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

Some of us want the crown before the cross.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.