Smart but bad?

Ninja: I wish I could live in the White House..
Me: Why?
Ninja: Because it has a hundred rooms.
Me: But why do you need so many rooms? There's only one Erik. What are you going to do with so many rooms?
Ninja: Then why do they have so many rooms?
Me: Because they have a lot of guests and they need to accommodate them.
Ninja: How come we never get invited?
Me: (pause and thinking) because they only invite important people. Because the POTUS is an important person.
Ninja: How can I become important? I need to work hard?
Me; Yes. You need to be smart and work hard because the POTUS only works with smart people.
Ninja: But what if you are smart but bad?
(wow, right on!)
Me: Then that is not good. It is more important to be good than be smart. And being good sometimes is hard than being smart...

...pretty deep for a bath time conversation.

ninja making a wish on his 7th birthday