“I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.”

“Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.”

“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”

“The youth is the hope of our future.”

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.”

“Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.”

“Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.”

“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”

“I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.”

“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”

“God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.”

“They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.”

“I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.”

“If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.”

“For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.”

“I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.”

“We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.”

“I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

“So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.”

“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”