“Love is hope when reason despairs.”

“Love can hope where reason would despair.”

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

“The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.”

“In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.”

“Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair”