Nixon was an awful president in many ways including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance but someone else may not know about it.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

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

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.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Although I do not have a family I have eyes ears and imagination and know as most people know that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Well I think that as a country we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.