I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

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.

Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.

There is a devil inside each one of us. Some just know to hide it too well.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.