Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.
When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
