Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

If I wore a peek-a-boo dress, it would be like turning in a false alarm.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.