“There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.”

“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”

“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.”

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”

“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”

“I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.”

“The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.”