“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” 
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.” 
― Alfred Tennyson

“The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"  It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.  This is it: "Nothing.” 
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.” 
― Malcolm X

“A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.” 
― Emily Dickinson

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.” 
― John Lennon

“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” 
― Tony DeLiso