"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." - Janos Arany

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Harry F. Banks

"In the last analysis, ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"The superior man is distressed by his want of ability." - CONFUCIUS, Analects

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." - LAURENCE J. PETER, The Peter Principle

"Every man loves what he is good at." - THOMAS SHADWELL, A True Widow

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended." - ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Dialogues

"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. T: 'If youth but knew; if [old] age but could.'" - Estienne, Henri in 'Les Pr]mices' 1594

"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Hale, Edward Everett

"The more we do, the more we can do." - Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)

"Anything that is conceivable is possible." - Hume, David