“ Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betray… 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
“ Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin. Ron Suskind
“ When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance. Ron Suskind
“ Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. Ron Suskind
“ It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his… Ron Suskind
“ One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need. Ron Suskind
“ A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of… Ron Suskind
“ Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you can't" or "you won't" or "why bother." More than anything else, mastering that fait… Ron Suskind
“ He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks… Ron Suskind
“ 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 a… Ron Suskind
“ Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. Ron Suskind
“ The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't. Ron Suskind
“ A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom? Ron Suskind
“ I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen Ron Suskind
“ A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president. Ron Suskind
