"We all seek models of hope and despair, and our sense of hope or despair is reinforced by direct contact with someone who has either prevailed or perished. But more important, to help a person find hope, you need to know him in real depth. Within his past are the clues to this puzzle."

      "Hope, then, is constructed not just from rational deliberation, from the conscious weighing of information; it arises as an amalgam of thought and feeling, the feelings created in part by neural input form the organs and tissues."

      "Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible. The familiar poetic phrase "hope flowers" captures this catalytic process. And the growth of hope is not strictly linear, always expanding. There are moments of fear an doubt that can deflate it."

- The Anatomy of Hope