Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. Douglas Coupland
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Václav Havel
Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be. Dean Koontz
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. Dmitri Shostakovich
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. Philip Johnson
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Václav Havel