The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

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.

Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.

She is so beautiful. Perfect. Mine.No. Not mine. I am hers.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.