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.

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.

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

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,

After this is over, I want a shower in a really big bathroom.""I'll get us the penthouse.""What makes you think you'll be sharing it with me?""I live in hope.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.