Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

My host at Richmond yesterday morning could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son a clever little boy to show me the road leading to Windsor.

No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like 'No don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Writing is learning to say nothing more cleverly each day.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.

A clever imagination humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.