If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.