“I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.”
“I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great”
“Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.”
“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.”
“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. ”