Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

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

He [T. E. Lawrence] had a genius for backing into the limelight.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.

He was a strange character, to say the least. He was a genius on the piano. Anything you would ask him to play, he could play it and play it well. He would play a classical piece, then play it backwards just as fluently -- without missing a beat.