hope

"Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?"

"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."

"Love is only one fine star away."

"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."

"I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound."

"Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again."

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

"I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."

"To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are."

"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."

"Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams."

"Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

"In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace."

"Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous."

"I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come."

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."

"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."

"The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future."

"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."