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

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

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.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

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

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

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.