I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.