
If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two, —
Ron Suskind

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes. —
Ron Suskind

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose. —
Ron Suskind

What can we do? It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know. —
Ron Suskind

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. —
Ron Suskind

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president. —
Ron Suskind

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

Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs. —
Ron Suskind

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions. —
Ron Suskind

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. —
Ron Suskind

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. —
Ron Suskind

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills. —
Ron Suskind

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. —
Ron Suskind

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". —
Ron Suskind

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place. —
Ron Suskind

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. —
Ron Suskind

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

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules. —
Ron Suskind

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere. —
Ron Suskind

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. —
Ron Suskind

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. —
Ron Suskind

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? —
Ron Suskind

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. —
Ron Suskind

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson —
Ron Suskind

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

These were lobbyists - many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings. —
Ron Suskind

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status. —
Ron Suskind