"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available."

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor"

"A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her"

"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."

"A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."

"There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor"

"The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping."

"No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness"

"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty"

"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."

"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."

"Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

"Genius is childhood recovered at will."

"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."

"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself."

"People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care."