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- The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. — George Eliot
- Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. — Thomas Carlyle
- The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
- The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. — Eisaku Sato
- If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. — Eisaku Sato
- All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. — Eisaku Sato