Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.