Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.