The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got read more

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows read more

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise