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

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (H. H. Munro (Saki))