The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.