“This is where they come into their own, for there's money in hope: the more desperate the hope, the richer the pickings.”

“… where there is no more hope, song remains.”

“The Cuban people deserve to have their human rights respected and upheld, they deserve to be able to move towards democracy where they pick their own leads. And I think both Castros have to be considered authoritarian and dictatorial because they are not freely chosen by the people that are in Cuba. I hope someday there will be leaders who are chosen by the Cuban people, and I hope that democracy will be deeply rooted in Cuban soil and that the people of Cuba will have every opportunity to fulfill their own dreams in their own country. That is my hope.”

“War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.”

“Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.”

“What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.”

“To hope, Hope in what, Hope, just hope, one reaches a point where there is nothing but hope, and that is when we discover that hope is everything.”

“Short on money, long on hope”

“As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked.”

“No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.”