Quotes About Optimism

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

Any time I'm healthy I feel like I'm the best defensive player in the NFL.

When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?

I've always had a bit of delusional confidence.

My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.

We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.

I don't sit around and get depressed about things. It's not my character.

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

I don't get depressed.

I don't want to read a book that's depressing.

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.