“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”

“I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.”

“I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.”

“Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.”

“We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.”

“Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.”

“Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.”

“Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.”

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

“I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.”

“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.”

“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”

“All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.”

“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”

“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.”