To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

After my mom died there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing her real intellectual curiosity.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes however we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery and it is intellectually dishonest.

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other and brings fruition to both of you.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements but moral acts: to return love for hate to include the excluded and to say 'I was wrong'.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am content with knowing if only I could know.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source and so on.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school I'm still learning all the time.

Ignorance of what real learning is and a consequent suspicion of it materialism and a consequent intellectual laxity both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.