Intelligence and genius

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Take responsibility for the city

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.