I am still learning.

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.

You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Your vision becomes broader when you encounter God daily

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.