You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Hope is only the love of life.
-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
-- Bono, Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
-- George McDonald
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