Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and courage which it contained.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand help you in with the other and still have one left for the tip.