Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.