hope

"You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless."

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

"All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found"

"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace."

"I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope."

"I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)"

"How disappointment tracks the steps of hope."

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

"I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights."

"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."

"Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence."

"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."

"...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it."

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time."

"Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing."

"I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes."

"At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never."