Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

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.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.