To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.