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

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

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

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

listen to me, you’ve got this.seriously, you’ve got this.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

I am not what I think I am. I just am.

What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.

My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.