Pavement slippery, people sneezing,Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;Titled gluttons dainties carving,Genius in a garret starving.

the poor, beleaguered people of Iraq are not better off.

The divine egoism that is genius.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people

Dick was one of the best. That was his genius. You can't win without those people.