"We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart."

“I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it”

“If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?”

“There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.”

“If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.”

“...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.”

“An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.”

“A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”

“[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.”

Source : Karl Mannheim (1936). “Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge”