“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”

“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.”

“To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.”

“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”

“My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.”

“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.”

“We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.”

“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”

“There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.”

“My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.”

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

“I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.”

“I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.”

“I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.”

“I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.”

“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”

“In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.”

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”