"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."

"If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger."

"I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active."

"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."

"I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career."