Barack Obama - In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Lady Bird Johnson - Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

Barack Obama - In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope

Barack Obama - In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

Barack Obama - When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

Barack Obama - While the nature of war has changed...the values that drive our brave men and women in uniform remain constant: honor, courage, selflessness.

Barack Obama - Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.

Michelle Obama - You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Joseph Campbell - Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Thomas Hardy - The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Pliny the Elder - Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Iyanla Vanzant - I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Becky Hammon - Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Anonymous - May the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Have a positive hope on this Good Friday!

Mark McKinnon - As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Thomas Jefferson - I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.