"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected"

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity"

"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

"The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool"