We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

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.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy.Jade Gentry (Polishing Jade)

You do what you can to help your team win, whether it's playing that many minutes or 24 or whatever is asked of you, you do. You prepare yourself to play as much as you're asked to play.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.