I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that you're stuck.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.

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

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

It's a great excuse and luxury having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

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

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour ' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment even though the game is so frustrating you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon.

It is quite true as some poets said that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor creating him a reasonable being yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time representing every nation.

I told the President I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them they are not going to sit down and talk.

When you put something out there into the world there's all these words you don't want to hear that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro reinvent recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying emulating.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.