"The kind of hope that I often think about... I understand above all as a
state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we
don't; it is a dimension of the soul, and it's not essentially dependent on
some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation...
[Hope] is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the
certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
