“Hope outshines the cynic shadow that stalks the day.”

“Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.”

“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”

“He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.”

“Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism--like irony--provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal.”

“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”