"I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that"

"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"

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"

"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"

"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point"

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

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"