In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man.

In 1984 I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History more often than not shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed sooner rather than later.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

O human beauty what a dream art thou that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Finds progress man's distinctive mark alone Not God's and not the beast's God is they are Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.