Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.