A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.

Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.

Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.

Passion is the fire that can burn through fear.

It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you?

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

Life too short to spend alone.

When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.