“only the optimist will take the advantage in every hard thing”

“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”

“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”

“but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.”

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”