Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

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.

Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments

While you are busy pleasing the crowd, who is attending to the positive demands of your inner-self?

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.