“Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”
“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”
“Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.”
“Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.”
“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
“Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.”