I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

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.

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

We're all going to hell anyway, why not enjoy the ride?

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.