An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

There is a greater grace for every great sin.

Don't listen to anyone but me

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

I'm a politician. I believe that we can change any rule.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.