Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. – Douglas Jerrold, “Meeting Troubles Half-Way,” 1859

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. – Francis H. Bradley

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. – Abraham–Hicks