Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly

There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.