My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.