I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years but humor implies intelligence.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time he's very kind to people.

I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence too and he's really cute all those things - but if you don't respect your partner you'll get sick of him.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

A woman has to be intelligent have charm a sense of humor and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Ironically Latin American countries in their instability give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves as far as is possible in the society of today that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.