“Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.”

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

“Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.”

“If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.”

“She had hope in her heart but after a while, with each step forward, hope stepped back. And for the first time in months, the first time ever, she began to weep, and as she did she knew that with the retreat of hope her heart had finally caught up with her head. And as each tear spilled over she let them go, she was letting go.”

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”