Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Faith in yourself matters.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

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

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

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?

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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

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.