"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"

-- Jane Austen

“Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.”
“You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.”
“Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.”
“I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.”
“A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.”
“What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.”
“How can you think and hit at the same time?”
“True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already,”

Source : "Actor Denzel Washington Delivers Incredibly Passionate Speech About Faith, Hard Work and Life’s True Riches" by Billy Hallowell, www.theblaze.com. May 28, 2014.

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