Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people 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.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Hope is a waking dream.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

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.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

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.

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

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

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.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.