One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

Corporations consumers and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel but also in what we hope for.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

I hope I'm wrong but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam not in the number who died but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

My hope is that gays will be running the world because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.