The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
I like a guy who's sarcastic, serious, sensitive - even just silent. But you have to do it at the right times. That's sexy. To me, it reflects intelligence.
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
