Baron Eric de Rothschild

If you could sit on this bench and have a one-hour conversation with anyone—past or present—who would you choose?
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Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

Sarah Kemp and Baron de Rothschild, of Château Lafite-Rothschild at the ROH Wine Gala Dinner 2016.

Remember: everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something, so be kind and loving to all that comes your way.
That us the art of life.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places, and there are so many, where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

When we remember the stories of powerful people overcoming oppression in the past, it serves as the grounds for hope that it can happen again. For this reason, I define hope not as a feeling but as a conviction, based on the knowledge of all the ordinary people who have won against injustice before.

This conviction that we can win isn’t static. It’s a flame that must be fed and tended. We tend our hope by setting boundaries about how we consume news content that makes us feel despair.