People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again from zero.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

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.