Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Improvement begins with I.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Success isnt a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The fewer the facts the stronger the opinion.

In life as in football you wont go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame a little less than his share of the credit.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it.

People with tact have less to retract.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.