I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

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 world would be a sadder place without stories.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.