However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

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.

Let me love and feel the charm and joy of life.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.