Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

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

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

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

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

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

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

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.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

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.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

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.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

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

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

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

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

‚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.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.