Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

My parents shared not only an improbable love they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name Barack or blessed believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

At first dreams seem impossible then improbable and eventually inevitable.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible then they seem improbable and then when we summon the will they soon become inevitable.

As human beings we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience if something has never happened before we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Facts which at first seem improbable will even on scant explanation drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.