Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

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.

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

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.

God did not create you for sorrow and sickness

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.