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

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

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

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.

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.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the source of the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. It's taken us three years so far, and we're only half way.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

I don't have TiVo, but I watch a lot of 'Judge Judy' - it makes me happy about my life when I see what the people on that show do.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

Naysayers have little power over us – unless we give it to them.

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger they will take even less, unless they are vigilant and robust about protecting their own interests.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.