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

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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.

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.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

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

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

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

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

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

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.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

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

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.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

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

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

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.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

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.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

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

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.