Quotes About Hope

I want to show people that the hospital does have its moments. The hospital is just a place, and even though it does have fluorescent lighting and white walls, it doesn't have to be a miserable experience.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics painted on walls, and you realise he has this almost religious significance to the underclass of the world. He's a guy born in a hut with no bed, and now he's probably the most listened-to artist in the world. It's fascinating.

Actors are used to staring at the walls waiting for the phone to ring. It's not unchartered territory for us.

I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'

It was honestly like 'Annie.' One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart.

Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.

Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.

I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people.

I don't get asked this much - 'Would you ever wanna see your father again?' And the answer there is that I would like to see him again.

Patrick Swayze

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

You've gotta motivate kids. They wanna grow up. They got problems. You've gotta give 'em that music to make 'em feel like they're OK, and it's only a couple of artists that do that.

When I was 5, I was always joking around like, 'Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.'

In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along with tens of thousands of other Jews ran for the door in an attempt to make a better life in America.

I wanna do a God album, a positive album so the kids and everybody will understand what's going on.

I wanna live long. As long as I can.

I wanna make music that helps people.