One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.