It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Humor is very very risky particularly for a candidate unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

In my opinion I think sarcasm and humor in a song without turning it into a novelty song is really charming.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months even years without any news without any hope!

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

If it is nothingness that awaits us let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny even though without hope of victory.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money but even... without any hope of doing it well.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I said to my soul be still and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

It's like if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues so you should probably stay home and work on those issues and not distract everyone with lights and sounds oh my gosh the tapping on the screens it makes me crazy!