El optimismo hace que una vida más feliz y significativa.

Un optimista es el que cree que todo tiene arreglo. Un pesimista es el que piensa lo mismo, pero sabe que nadie va a intentarlo.

El optimista cree en los demás y el pesimista sólo cree en sí mismo.

El optimismo es la fe que conduce al éxito. Nada puede hacerse sin esperanza y confianza.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia lógica para no arruinar el presente, y optimismo desafiante para encarar el futuro.

Un optimista ve una oportunidad en toda calamidad, un pesimista ve una calamidad en toda oportunidad.

El optimista tiene siempre un proyecto; el pesimista, una excusa.

El pesimismo conduce a la debilidad; el optimismo al poder.

El primer paso para la solución de los problemas es el optimismo. Basta creer que se puede hacer algo para tener ya medio camino hecho y la victoria muy cercana.

La condición esencialísima para ser optimista, es tener una absoluta confianza en sí mismo.

El optimismo perpetuo es un multiplicador de fuerzas.

El optimista se equivoca con tanta frecuencia como el pesimista, pero es incomparablemente más feliz.

Es algo maravilloso ser optimistas. Te mantiene saludable y resistente.

Los líderes tienen que ser optimistas. Su visión va más allá del presente.

Elige ser optimista, se siente mejor.

Creo que cualquier éxito en la vida se hace al entrar en una zona con un optimismo ciego y furioso

Para encontrar el optimismo, busca las cosas buenas de la vida.

Vive la vida con una actitud de expectativa optimista, sabiendo que todo lo que pasa te beneficia en un sentido o en otro.

Una actitud positiva provoca una reacción en cadena de pensamientos positivos, eventos y resultados. Es un catalizador y desata resultados extraordinarios.

El optimismo es esencial para el logro y es también el fundamento del valor y del verdadero progreso

El optimismo es vida; el pesimismo, un suicidio lento.

Elegir ser positivo y tener una actitud agradecida determinará cómo vivirás tu vida.

Elige ser positivo y constructivo. El optimismo es el hilo conductor hacia el éxito.

La condición esencial para ser optimista, es tener una absoluta confianza en sí mismo.

Aprende a sonreír en toda situación. Míralas como una oportunidad para probar tu fuerza y habilidad.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

I wanted to be a businesswoman from as early as I can remember, and specifically, my real passion was real estate.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

We all make decisions the difference is how and when we make them.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

Biking is about rhythm and flow. Its the wind in you face and the challenge of hammering up along hill. Its the reward at the top and the thrill of a high speed descent. Biking lets you come alive in both body and spirit. After awhile the bike disappears beneath you and you feel as if youre suspended in midair.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Affirm divine calmness and peace and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry for anger poisons your system.

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long and torturous edit process when it seemed that 'Zulu Hart,' the first of the trilogy, would never be fit for public consumption.

Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts it can be assigned to memory taken and hidden in the mind smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. Its like sex appeal.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.