He was a strange character, to say the least. He was a genius on the piano. Anything you would ask him to play, he could play it and play it well. He would play a classical piece, then play it backwards just as fluently -- without missing a beat.

Find a way to come back because this is where your heart is. (The) festival will be the therapy we all feel we need.

Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

He [T. E. Lawrence] had a genius for backing into the limelight.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.