The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going. He who keeps his cool best wins. For every low there is an equal but opposite high. |