“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.” 
― Sigmund Freud

“Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.” 
― Pittacus Lore

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.” 
― Woody Allen

“Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!” 
― Jerry Spinelli

“Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.” "Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.” 
― Melina Marchetta

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.” 
― Walter Benjamin

“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” 
― Barbara Kingsolver

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” 
― Barack Obama