“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

“So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.”

“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”

“At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.”

“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

“I hope I have important things to say.”

“I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.”

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.”

“I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.”