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We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I’ll get it right one day.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.