#hope

"Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?"

"Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES'today."

"When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose."

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

"She’s ignoring my texts. Maybe she’s dead. Oh, I certainly hope so. I’d hate to think she’s being deliberately unresponsive."

"Why We Need Smart People [10w] We need smart people to call other smart people morons."

"Marriage Advice [10w] Marry a man above youand a woman beneath you."

"Mind Maneuvers When we hear something unflattering,our mind doesn't fully process it.When we hear a compliment,the mind goes into overdriveand tend to read too much into it."

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

"How Hard? [10w] Fuck’em hard enough to make their breasts move like Jell-O."

"How to End Racism [10w] The children of interracial marriages should look like panda bears."

"The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point."

"I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh."

"Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be."

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest."

"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."

"I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream."

"Kill Buddha's Hairdresser [10w] I'd like to meet Buddha's hairdresser and shoot the prick."

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness."