Quotes About Hope

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

Prison, I don't want to go back there again.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

I've had cancer four times. But you know, God has blessed me, and I feel so honored and so privileged in the blessings of life.

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

I was 18, I wanted to be a first-year pro.