For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

In a Trump administration we're going to go about creating a new relationship between America and Mexico, but it's going to be a fair relationship. We want fairness.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.

Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.