For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
“I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.”
“The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.”