We are all uniquely ourselves – fascinatingly, wonderfully, and irritatingly different – and we are all very much the same, tightly woven together in the vast web of humanity.
Hope is a state of mind, not a state of the world. . . .Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel