“Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair”
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“You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.”
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”