Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

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.

Words mean nothingActions are everythingExpect nothingAppreciate everything

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.