Only expectation has value as currency,

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

The market is paying a premium for Siemens, and that premium is being justified on near-term expectations of value creation which we believe will be difficult to realize.

Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.

We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been so utterly unpredictable; we are not so much in a period of transition with belief in progress to push us on, rather we seem to be entering the realm of the unknown, joylessly, disillusioned, and without hope. The whole world seems to be in a state of spiritual widowhood, possessed of the harrowing devastation of one who set out on life’s course joyously in intimate comradeship with another, and then is bereft of that companion forever.