Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Hope is the dream of a soul awake. – Proverb

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge