Paul Tsongas - America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

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

Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Ellen DeGeneres - I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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.

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

Bill Clinton - There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Gwen Carr - We are going to get out here, I am going to get out here and get something done. We have to wake up America. We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 yea

Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish.

Martin Luther King Jr. - The goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.

William J. Clinton - “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”

Jill Biden - Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Richard Gere - What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.