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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Every human being is been given some assignment on the earth

Short accounts make long friends.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.