Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.