“Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, put it this way: “Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at the beginning of most good things.” Havel lived long enough to see the hopeless enterprise of freedom in Europe become a reality, though a bloody, ethnically contentious one whose future remains uncertain.”
–Robert Raines, A Time to Live, p. 166
