If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute

Les optimistes et les pessimistes ont un grand défaut qui leur est commun : ils ont peur de la vérité

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

The foot feels the foot when it's touched by the ground, like the heart feels the heart when it's no longer bound.

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on It is about muddling through the middle