I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

Optimism is a disease

I'm an optimist.

“Zeal should not outrun discretion.”

“False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.”

"He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face."

"And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."

"And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year;"

"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."

"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."

"The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."

"Extract the eternal from the ephemeral."

"To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'"

"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."

"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

"But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all."

"They say women and music should never be dated."

"Who can direct when all pretend to know?"

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

"In real life, events seem much less dramatic."

"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."

"I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins."