Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

We have always held to the hope the belief the conviction that there is a better life a better world beyond the horizon.

We peruse one ideal that of bringing people together in peace irrespective of race religion and political convictions for the benefit of mankind.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views not even kindness.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism economic inequality is real and growing.

Most importantly nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.