Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.