I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

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.

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.