Quotes About Hope

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

I want to make this world perfect.

We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

I haven't had a perfect life.

I'm a perfect person to tell people not to give up.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

Jesus died when he was 33, and when I was 33, I was coming out of a failed marriage and was in a really low point in my life because I was really sad about that. God healed me so much during that period. So I loved that year because I leaned on God, and then, as a result, I started checking things off my bucket list.

We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

I have had periods of depression in my life.