“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”

“If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.”

“The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”

“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”

“For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.”

“At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.”

“Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.”

“We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.”

“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”