It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Genius, when young, is divine.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I want a baby from an Italian – possibly Sicilian – donor.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Genius is patience.