Undernourished intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen filled with nothing the body can use.

The private citizen beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion will soon see perhaps that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Poets are the sense philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks but few with their intelligence. I however assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.