Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.Salman Rushdie
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.Fyodor Dostoevsky