Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

You never can change the reality without changing the perception.

Cause I'd rather spend one glorious lifetime with you, Claire Doyle, than an eternity with anyone else.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

Strength is not created by adversity

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

People in New Zealand go out of their way to not be impressed by things.

Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.