“Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?”

“I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.”

“I just hope we hire the best-qualified person for whatever job it may be. As long as we're hiring the best that we've got, I don't have a problem with any of it.”

“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn.”

“While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.”

“It became clear that drugs based on a-MSH could not be used on an everyday basis to treat disorders of body weight. It was a big disappointment. Now there is hope that ß-MSH might work better.”

“I would have gotten on a bike the next day with him. I hope he wants to ride, because I really enjoyed it and I know he did too.”

“Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.”

“When someone buys a painting of mine and they fall in love with it, I hope they fall in love with it every time they look at it. That's why I paint. That's why I sell.”

“I guess I hope the police department will overlook it. I think they know as well as I do that the public's safer if they spend the night in the shelter rather than under a bridge.”