I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Critique by creating.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.