A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

All men hate the nagging.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.