Quotes About Hope

I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.

Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To be informed about where they're coming from and to have some glimpse towards a hopeful future.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

What I wanted originally was six kids.

Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list.

For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.

My mom literally saved my life. I wasn't supposed to make it out of the orphanage.

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I have always had faith in our community because I've seen us come together in so many ways before, even during the most difficult of times.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

We are all trying to achieve our dreams.

I don't dream small. But then, what are we without our dreams?

I ask one more thing from our father above - God save Bolivia.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.