He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

The future will be better tomorrow.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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.

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.

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

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Time discovers truth.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

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.

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.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.