“Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. ”

“Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.”

“Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.”

“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.”

“The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.”

“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.”