The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

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.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

To be a champion you must live like one.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.