God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

I believe talent is like electricity. We do not understand electricity. We use it. Electricity makes no judgement. You can plug into it, and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going ... or you can electrocute a person with it. ... I think talent is like that.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

A forte always makes a foible.

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.