The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them yes I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence seeing how you react. If you're in control they're in control.

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth ministry miracles death resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred within their own personal knowledge.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it can be incredibly hard.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.