Glenn Kelman Quotes

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

With acceptance comes opportunities. And with opportunities come numbers and, most importantly, hope.

Things could be worse and things could be so much better.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.