“No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.”

“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ”

“To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.”

“Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.”

“Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would be satisfied to allow talent. Genius and talent are very different things. Many people have talent; it is not rare: genius is. Talent is adroit and dexterous; it can be cultivated; genius is innate, and too often strangely allied to grave defects. But what is genius?”

“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”