It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations the same hopes and fears to which the Bible addresses itself it might rival it in distribution.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I have no money no resources no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

From sixteen to twenty all women kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions appear to be good-natured.