The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.