Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

I remember thinking, 'If I can make Tina Fey laugh, I can die happy.'