Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

One sweet note is but an ounce of pain.

This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.