When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

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.

Without love, the world would be a heap of ruins.

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.