We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

You have to have a very well-balanced life to be able to perform very well.