"Inspiring hope in a cynical world might be the most radical thing you can possibly do."
Jacqueline Novogratz addresses 2012 graduating seniors in a beautiful commencement speech. (via explore-blog)
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"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
"She made her people feel as if they were wearing armor or sinking ships. Only a very special queen can do that. It isn’t easy, you know. It takes a kind of magic."
Margaret George, in “Elizabeth I”
"It is satisfying to outlive one’s enemies, and the scheme of one’s enemies. One of the unheralded benefits of age."
Margaret George in “Elizabeth I”
