Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece