I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

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.

Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.

Be still and know you are loved –Feel the arms of the universeRocking you to its steady hum.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.

There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.