What tricks does the devil play on you?

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all.

Poem by Emily Dickinson, Hope is the Thing with Feathers

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth (Church of Satan)

I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Quotation from Ingmar Bergman

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Quotation from Bill Gates