The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

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.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

We like to forget and underestimate the power of love and kindness, more often than not, it can change a life and a society.

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.