Keep The Company Of Those Who Seek

Follow The Man Who Seeks The Truth; Run From The Man Who Has Found It.

My Dear Fellow Citizens: For Forty Years You Have Heard From My Predecessors On This Day Different Variations Of The Same Theme: How Our Country Flourished, How Many Millions Of Tons Of Steel We Produced, How Happy We All Were, How We Trusted Our Government, And What Bright Perspectives Were Unfolding In Front Of Us. I Assume You Did Not Propose Me For This Office So That I, Too, Would Lie To You.

I Am Not An Optimist, Because I Am Not Sure That Everything Ends Well. Nor Am I A Pessimist, Because I Am Not Sure That Everything Ends Badly. I Just Carry Hope In My Heart. Hope Is The Feeling That Life And Work Have A Meaning. You Either Have It Or You Don't, Regardless Of The State Of The World That Surrounds You. Life Without Hope Is An Empty, Boring, And Useless Life. I Cannot Imagine That I Could Strive For Something If I Did Not Carry Hope In Me. I Am Thankful To God For This Gift. It Is As Big As Life Itself.

Education Is The Ability To Perceive The Hidden Connections Between Phenomena.

None Of Us Know All The Potentialities That Slumber In The Spirit Of The Population, Or All The Ways In Which That Population Can Surprise Us When There Is The Right Interplay Of Events.