hope

"I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously."

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

"Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves."

"You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor."

"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold."

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."

"You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things."

"[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope."

"Farming is a profession of hope"

"When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive."

"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."

"Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you. I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us."

"The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance."

"The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up."

"We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God."

"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road."

"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."

"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."

"When in darkness....strike a match"

"It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers."