"It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life." -- Max Frisch
"Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." -- Samuel Smiles
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof." -- Barbara Kingsolver
