I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

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.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

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.

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

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

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.