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As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.