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

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.

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.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Oblige me by telling me where I am.""That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.