A esperança de gozar cede apenas em prazer à esperança realizada.

A duração breve da nossa vida proíbe-nos de alimentar uma esperança longa.

O mundo pertence aos otimistas: os pessimistas são meros espectadores.

Otimismo é esperar pelo melhor. Confiança é saber lidar com o pior.

Nada há de bom nesta vida salvo a esperança de uma outra vida.

Há pessoas que choram por saber que as rosas têm espinho. Há outras que sorriem por saber que os espinhos têm rosas!

Pratique a esperança. À media que a esperança se torna um hábito, você consegue alcançar um espírito permanentemente feliz.

Lute com determinação, abrace a vida com paixão, perca com classe e vença com ousadia, porque o mundo pertence a quem se atreve e a vida é muito para ser insignificante.

A verdadeira esperança é uma qualidade, uma determinação heróica da alma. E a mais elevada forma de esperança é o desespero superado.

Acredite que você pode, assim você já está no meio do caminho.

Pessimismo leva à fraqueza, otimismo ao poder.

A esperança é um alimento da nossa alma, ao qual se mistura sempre o veneno do medo.

Todos os dias faça alguma coisa de que você tem medo.

Um dia tudo será excelente, eis a nossa esperança; hoje tudo corre pelo melhor, eis a nossa ilusão.

O presente é a sombra que se move separando o ontem do amanhã. Nela repousa a esperança.

Acredite, existem pessoas que não procuram beleza, mas sim coração.

A esperança é o sonho do homem acordado.

Num certo momento da vida, não é a esperança a última a morrer, mas a morte é a última esperança.

A recordação é a esperança do avesso. Olha-se para o fundo do poço como se olhou para o alto da torre.

Se, a princípio, a ideia não é absurda, então não há esperança para ela.

It is as easy to create a castle as a button. Its just a matter of whether youre focused on a castle or a button.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs? I want to make sure that we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

When I was little, I was such a tomboy - I loved a baggy T-shirt and leggings.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

I think of myself, an Iranian/American artist, and wonder what would I want if I'm ever imprisoned by the Iranian government for the work that I make? I answer: I would hope that the United States government comes to my rescue.

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.