To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

Hoping is a waste of The Present.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.

How the journey started is not necessarily a reflection of how it will end.

It is evil to give up on someone before them.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

Hope is fuel, not the destination.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.