I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Action is character.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

People want to feel hopeful.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.