My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro.

Each of us is equally valued in the eyes of the Lord.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.