“The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fineuntil it wasn't.”

“Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.”

“Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating...”

“The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.”

“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.”

“If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,”

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times tha...”

“It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like ...”

“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws ...”

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

“If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good.”

“If you want to get good in Leadership, you probably should start reading the bible.”

“I dont see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.”