The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in se

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.

Author: Michelangelo

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Genius is eternal patience.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.