“It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.”

“Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.”

“When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”

“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils”

“by indignities men come to dignities”

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.”

“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”