Talent

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes

Ability is nothing without opportunity

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself