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

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

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,

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.

We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.