"The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case."

-- Martin Seligman

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“With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.”
“The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.”
“Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.”

Source : James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.2, American Enterprise Institute
“I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.”
“I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.â€ May 19, 1962”
“Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.”
“My adoption was treated as a celebration.”

Source : Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books
“One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.”

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