The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

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.

Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks.

My fist is her flag still furled. Take the cannoli and leave the tuxedo - This is my jackleg opera to the world.

My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.

There are no silver bullets.

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.