I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.