When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

How can a president not be an actor?

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

One must steer, not talk.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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.

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

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.