"When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting"

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

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

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

"Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows"

"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"

"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability"

"The youth is the hope of our future"

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit"

"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate"