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

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

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

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

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.