While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any...

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And...

Esme skips on ahead. Jumping from one foot to the other, as if she can see markings on the ground he can't. She is constantly jumping and skipping and twirling with the lightness of falling snow,...

Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me

I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.

Hope is an anchor for the soul.

Change was coming. Change was coming, and it was good.

By looking on the bright side, we'll activate enthusiasm and turn on the go system.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Every day is the prime of your life.

Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

It's always today, Jim, and it's just going to get better and better, I said.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver...

The Problem of Life seemed to him to be solved. He looked on down the years, and he could see no troubles there of any kind whatsoever. Reason suggested that there were probably one or two knocking...

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

Havin loved enough and lost enough,I'm no longer searching,just opening,no longer trying to make sense of painbut trying to be a soft and sturdy homein which real things can land.These are the...

I'm not much but I'm all I have.