hope

"My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension."

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them."

"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."

"The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope."

"With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair."

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

"I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from."

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining"

"I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do."

"I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people."

"Hope is a talent like any other."

"I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies."

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."

"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen."

"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"

"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people."

"The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there."