More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

In this period of social change the Negro must work on two fronts. On the one hand we must continue to break down the barrier of segregation. We must resist all forms of racial injustice. This resistance must always be on the highest level of dignity and discipline.