I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed … - Jacob M. Appel

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke....

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

For recent presidents, especially those still living, there is always the possibility, a rather strong one, that we will discover additional information that is presently known to physicians and presidents but not to the general public...Almost all of the modern presidents would have been rated higher and looked healthier on paper while in office than they do in retrospect with the benefit of information not released during their terms.