"Great hopes make everything great possible..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.”

“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.”

“What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”

“One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.”

“There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.”

“I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.”