“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”

“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”

“Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.”

“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.”

“So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.”

“When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.”

“I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.”

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”

“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”