As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.