Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.