It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

Good values are easier caught than taught.