"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it." ― Studs Terkel Topic(s): Beauty More From Studs Terkel "I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing." "People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.’ We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations." "With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, ‘Studs, you’re an optimist.’ I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what’s the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven." More In Beauty "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."― Robert Louis Stevenson "I am a thing of beauty."― Frank Sinatra "Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground."― Pope Paul VI