My greatest hope is that we will see a day when Israel will stand tall as a symbol of belonging across the Jewish world, and when global citizens will look to Jerusalem as the vibrant, modern,...

We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

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...

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in...

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.

There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

"What wish did you grant me?" Lolly asked. "I can't tell you," the little girl said very seriously. "But if you believe, it will come true."

And I know, by Noah's face, that even though he knew it, he didn't believe it, even though we all knew it, we were all holding on, somehow, hoping they'd keep trying, that they could just keep on...

We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or...

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly....

All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God

You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.

For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, What are you made of? After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life...