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.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Tell the children the truth.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

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

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

History is written by the victors.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Everybody is entertained to death.

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

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.