The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it read more

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather read more

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will read more

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.