“My name is Hope Happy, and I am a pessimist.”
“The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.”
“I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.”
“My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.”
“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
“I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.”