The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

The last Simply Red album, 'Stay,' was good, but the first three tracks were designed for radio play. They were written to meet people's expectations of Simply Red.

If calamities had the weight of physical objects we should long have been crushed down, or else, we should by now have been hunchbacked, unsteady on our feet, and with faces full of gloom and utter despair. Yet my entire body throbs with life and is full of expectations. Each day brings a fresh stock of experiences and new dreams.