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.
-Vaclav Havel ●
Hope is the most treacherous of human fancies.
● James Fenimore Cooper ●
Hope is merely disappointment deferred
● W.Burton Baldry ●

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
● Samuel Johnson ●
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
● Mahatma Gandhi ●
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
● Martin Luther King, Jr. ●