"I hope to get out before they start football next year"

"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"

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

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

"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"

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

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing"

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes"