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.

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

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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.

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

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.

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

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

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

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

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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.

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.

Genius is patience.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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.‘

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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.

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.

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

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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.

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.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Genius, when young, is divine.

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

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

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.

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