You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

God and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Jim Carrey a comic genius has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can you know take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius or from love to friendship.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

No I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman now and the man was gone.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted talented wealthy internationally famous genius.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

But I just know from experience that accent wise even if you're an accent genius crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.