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

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.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

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.

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

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 decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and 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.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

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

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

People want to feel hopeful.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

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

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

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

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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

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.

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.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

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