Optimism

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
-James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
-Susan J. Bissonette