Pessimismo leva à fraqueza, otimismo ao poder.

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.

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.

I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it for moral support, although I wouldn't say that's out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it... yes, I think I should actually start doing it more.

When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

All phenomena are equally susceptible of being calculated and all that is necessary to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

I've only done four or five episodes of 'Two and a Half Men,' and its amazing how many people recognize me for that more than anything else in my career.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.