Which is, I'm an OPTIMIST that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I THINK, might be what LOVE is, because they both grow from their RELATIONSHIP.

I LOVE people. When you're engaged with SOCIETY and TRYING to make it a BETTER society, you're an OPTIMIST.

I've ALWAYS BELIEVED my success in the entertainment BUSINESS is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an OPTIMIST.

I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European PARTNERS, which we will ALWAYS be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is GOING. In the WORLD, we are a GLOBAL trader already.

I've been DEPRESSED MANY TIMES in my LIFE. But under it all I'm an OPTIMIST.

An extreme optimist is a MAN who believes that HUMANITY will probably survive even if it doesn't TAKE his ADVICE.

The OPTIMIST underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, BELIEVING that ANYTHING is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all PROGRESS is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we CREATE realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more IMPORTANT and urgent, since for the optimist THINGS aren't that bad and are bound to get BETTER ANYWAY.

I'm an OPTIMIST about the power of TECHNOLOGY to TRANSFORM LIVES for the BETTER.

If I didn't WORK in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I NEVER TOOK it personally. Because there was always the THEATRE. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

An OPTIMIST is a FELLOW who BELIEVES what's GOING to be will be POSTPONED.

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some WAYS they were alike. Neither REALLY liked to talk on the telephone, for INSTANCE. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.

I am an OPTIMIST. I BELIEVE the future is BRIGHT. I think people who see LIFE painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.