The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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.

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

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.

Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting, ' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of viceIt may lock forever

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.