“Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” — From the movie, ‘Shawshank Redemption’

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, ‘Wait and hope’.” — Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo

“Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.” — Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” — Anne Lamott

“Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706…