Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.