But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Hope is a waking dream.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

The future will be better tomorrow.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.