Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

You accepted like a beast of burden the whip of a stranger's curse and the mindless menace it holds along with the scar it leaves as a definition you spend your life refuting although that hateful word is only a slim line drawn on a shore and quickly dissolved in a seaworld any moment when an equally mindless wave fondles it like the accidental touch of a finger on a clarinet stop that the musician converts into silence in order to let the true note ring out loud.

want to assure you that regardless of what you're facing today, God is a God of hope, and He will provide a way for you to experience victory in

Any thought that does not inspire hope is rooted in a lie.

May the Force be with you.

We must learn not to be afraid, we must rediscover a spirit of hope and a spirit of trust.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

He who despairs is wrong.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.