This life that has been given to us as a gift as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it really try to recognize it is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

And I understand that I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

I feel that I and the people under my command tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure money sex - but that did not characterize my service.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately you rarely hear a patient careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church which I know has helped cause this investigation by you points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

There is no one who possesses intelligence and uses reflection who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Undernourished intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen filled with nothing the body can use.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her without reserve she lends them to us she shows us these forms which our watching eyes do not see which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.