Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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

While there's life, there's hope.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.