Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
- William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
- St. Augustine
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams – this is madness. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables