Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller 

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison 

The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.--Sarah Orne Jewett 

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.--Linda Grayson

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.--Jesse Jackson 

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr. 

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.--Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)