It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

Who are the least of these? They are the thousands of individuals who see life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign.