What does it mean?
Hope is a decision, not just a feeling. The words are credited to Reeve, who kept working for a cure after an accident left him paralysed.
Who said it?
Christopher Reeve: American actor and disability activist (1952–2004).
These exact words are widely credited to Christopher Reeve, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.