I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

Welcome, New Year, said Captain Jim, bowing low as the last stroke died away. I wish you all the best years of your lives, mates. I reckon taht whatever the New Year brings us will be the best the Great Captain has for us -and somehow or other we'll all make port in a good harbour.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

As afraid as she was of loving and losing, she was even more afraid of losing the chance to love him.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.