#Genius

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall."

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

"Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals."

"Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives."

"There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater."

"The path of genius is free, and its own"

"You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night."

"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."

"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind."

"For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective."

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

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."

"A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say."

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

"I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon."

"When you make a choice, you change the future."