“With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.”

“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”

“The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.”

“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

“Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.”