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

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

If you die you are completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I am not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I have got.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.