Quotes About Hope

Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.

I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.

Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn't fight for petty things.

We all go through the phase where the work is slow and aren't sure if what we are doing will have returns in the future or if it'll reach people at all. You can't fight that.

Unfortunately, we all go through bad phases.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

My wife Julie and I are driven to make positive and enduring change in our beloved city of Philadelphia, in California, in Haiti, and around the world.

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I think Phoenix is a place where people see the potential. They see the young core that we have. They see the fan base, the wonderful city.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation started with one wish out of Phoenix, Arizona, and the organization has grown so grand ever since.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'