“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”

“I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.”

Alison Lohman (1979) American actress

“Courage is not herself enough. She cannot stand alone. She is a part, not a whole, a wife, not a man and wife. A well appreciated helpmeet.”

Margery Allingham (1904–1966) English writer of detective fiction

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

“The framers of the Constitution well understood that each locality, having separate and distinct interests, required separate and distinct laws, domestic institutions, and police regulations adapted to its own wants and its own condition; and they acted on the presumption, also, that these laws and institutions would be as diversified and as dissimilar as the States would be numerous, and that no two would be precisely alike, because the interests of no two would be precisely the same.”

Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861) American politician

“Religion has no limits, and no bounds;—
The vast, the infinite, and the eternal.,
Never from her may Genius separate.
Imagination from its earliest flight,
Past o'er the bounds of life : and the sublime
Is the reflection of divinity.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”

Thucydides Greek historian and Athenian general