If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. less than 1 minute read
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. less than 1 minute read
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. less than 1 minute read
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home. less than 1 minute read
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. less than 1 minute read
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. less than 1 minute read
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. less than 1 minute read
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. less than 1 minute read
