Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

Entertainment is in my genes – as I like to say.

Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

"...but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force..."

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."