“We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.”

“It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.”

“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.”

“I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.”

“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

“Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.”

“I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.”

“I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.”

“I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.”

“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.”

“Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.”

“I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.”

“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”

“Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.”

“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.”

“I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.”

“I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.”

“I hope to die in the saddle seat.”

“From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.”

“I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.”

“Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.”