Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

As you give out, so shall you receive.

I am still learning. (at age 87)

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.