"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
(Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778)

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
(Harry S. Truman)

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
(Mark Twain)

"People of the world are so imbued with their own stupidity that they can never believe that one of their own has talent. They appreciate only people of letters who are not of their world."
(Marcel Proust)

"Why is it no one ever sent me yet / One perfect limousine, do you suppose? / Ah no, it's always just my luck to get / One perfect rose."
(Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer)