The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

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

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

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

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.