I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
“If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.”
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”