Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

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