hope

"It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling."

"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."

"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence."

"So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope."

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?"

"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come."

"He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him."

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

"I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

"Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit"

"It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave His only begotten Son for us. I'm able to look back and know that on this day Jesus was born and gave us the opportunity to have eternal life."

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."