The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.
Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.
I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
Perspective is not a science but a hope.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.
I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.
I'm a pessimist.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Always look on the bright side of life.
While there's life, there is hope.
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
