Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

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.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Third time pays for all

Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.