"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"

    - Benjamin Franklin

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

       - Pope John Paul II

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

         - Erica Jong

"Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire"

       - Samuel Johnson