The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)