"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
"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." -- Emil Brunner
"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it." -- George Weinberg
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance." -- Author Unknown, from Dear Bertha
"We live by admiration, hope and love." -- William Wordsworth
"Believe in the incredible power of the human mind. Of doing something that makes a difference. Of working hard. Of laughing and hoping." -- Author Unknown, from Dream Big
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." -- Vaclav Havel
"There are no rules for architecture for a castle in the clouds." -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton