The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

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

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

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

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