Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

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.

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.

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.