The very best you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.

Barbara Kingsolver wrote: "The very best you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope" not admire it from the distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

Source: Kingsolver, Barbara, printed in "Living Inside Hope," Anne O'Shaughnessy, 55.