Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.