“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
“Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds”
“I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.”
“If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.”
“Well...you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way -- especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place.”