“Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.”

Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is my business to know what other people do not know.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Work is the best antidote to sorrow.

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.

You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.