Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
Hope is a passion for the possible.
A human being is all hope and impatience.
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
