“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”— Baltasar Gracian Related Quotes “Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”— Thomas Carlyle “In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hair, stretched towards me two bare arms, raised one knee:“Carry me upstairs, please. I feel sort of romantic tonight.”It may interest physiologists to learn, at this point, that I have the ability – a most singular case, I presume – of shedding torrents of tears throughout the other tempest.”— Vladimir Nabokov “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.”— Thor Heyerdahl