The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

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 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.

Do you live to eat or eat to live?

Leash the anger on purpose.Unleash it when falling apart.

only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayit is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.