A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes its character its importance or insignificance.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out in the military in the intelligence community.

Since the tragedies the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States and most importantly to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer stronger and wiser.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

So that to me is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.