Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.