على الرغم من الحاضر الظالم، فإنني شديد التفاؤل شديد الثقة بأن الفجر يقترب، وأن الصبح الوليد قادم

الإصرار على التفاؤل قد يصنع ما كان مستحيلاً

إذا نظرت بعين التفاؤل إلى الوجود رأيت الجمال شائعاً في كل ذراته، حتى القبح تجد فيه جمالا

لا أعلم ماذا يخبئ لي الغد، ولكني خبأت له التفاؤل

هناك من يتذمر لأن للورد شوكاً، و هناك من يتفاءل لأن فوق الشوك وردة

المتشائم، أحمق يرى الضوء أمام عينيه، لكنه لا يصدق

لا تيأس، فعادة ما يكون آخر مفتاح في مجموعة المفاتيح هو المناسب لفتح الباب

كلمة مستحيل ليس لها وجود في قاموسي

بعض الناس يرون الأشياء كما هى ويتسائلون لماذا ، وآخرون يحلمون بأشياء لم تكن أبداً ويتسألون لم لا

من يمتلك الصحة يمتلك الأمل، ومن يمتلك الأمل يمتلك كل شيء

سنعمل معا لدعم الشجاعة حيث هناك خوف ، لتشجيع التفاوض عندما يكون هناك صراع ، و إعطاء الأمل حيث يوجد اليأس

التفاؤل هو الإيمان الذي يؤدي إلى الإنجاز. لا شيء يمكن أن يتم دون الأمل و الثقة

عندما نفقد كل أمل علينا ألا نيأس

قد تشعر بخيبة الامل اذا فشلت ، لكنك ستضمحل إن لم تحاول أصلا

لا قيمة لحياتنا إذا فقدنا الأمل فى حياة أفضل

قلم الرصاص العادي طوله حوالي سبعة بوصات وبه ممحاة طولها نصف بوصة، وذلك في حالة ما وجدت التفاؤل ميتاً

المتشائم يرى الصعوبة في كل فرصة، والمتفائل يرى الفرصة في كل صعوبة

امنح كل يوم الفرصة ليكون أجمل أيام حياتك

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Sometimes when I get asked by younger wrestlers, 'Do you have any advice for me? What do you think you can help me on?' and I tell them I think the best advice is to try and outdo yourself. Always be unique, always be creative. I think that was part of my success. I never wanted anybody to be on top of me. I always wanted to be number one.

I like the gizmos that transport people.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.

I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.