Quotes About Hope

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I'd request one and all to look out for the silver linings and focus on positive thoughts and ideas, because as I always say, every cloud has a silver lining, and every sunset ends with a beautiful sunrise.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

I always tell everybody, if I can inspire one, they can inspire one more, and I can inspire a thousand later.

Stories keep us alive inside.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.