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

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.

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.

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.

The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.

Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

I dont like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see I have friends in both places.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Every community needs a rec center.

I'm not sayin' I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

A morning without coffee is like sleep.