“I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.”

“There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.”

“Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.”

“I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.”

“I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.”

“You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.”

“My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.”

“I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.”

“In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.”

“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”

“I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.”

“The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.”

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”

“I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.”

“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”

“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.”

“It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.”

“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”

“You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.”

“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”