"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire"

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

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it"

"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable"

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

"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"