No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

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.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.