Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.