I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

I learned that courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.

It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.