If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

—Brendan Francis

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

—Brendan Francis

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

—Brendan Francis

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

—Benjamin Franklin

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

—Baltasar Gracián

Art depends on luck and talent.

—Francis Ford Coppola

I am no more humble than my talents require.

—Oscar Levant