“Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.'
'It's the most we can hope for.”

“Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.”

“Is it a bad thing to have MPs voting for what they think is right? Isn't that Parliament working well?”

“The reason movies are often so bad out here isn't because the people who make them are cynical money hacks. Most of them are doing the very best they can; they really want to make good movies. The trouble is with their heads, not their hearts.”

“Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.”

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

“You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
Live well, my son.”

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”