What's important is finding out what works for you.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

Street performances?""A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.""Wow.""I know! The Portuguese have taste.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

You just can't enjoy any of the movie when you're in it.

Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.