“Wait, don't despair,Have faith and hopeful,Who wait and don't despair,The reward awaits.”

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”

“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”

“You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.”

“There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.”

“Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it. ”