“i'm not always optimistic but i am always hopeful.”
“I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.”
“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.”
“I'm no optimist. I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”