Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
What makes a genius is not just the idea but the execution around the idea to bring it to the world.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.