“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” 
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.” 
― Graham Greene

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” 
― Robert H. Goddard

“Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you.  I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us. ” 
― Lorna Byrne

“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.” 
― Orson Scott Card

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.” 
― Neil Gaiman

“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” 
― Whoopi Goldberg