I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.

Now is the accepted time.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

For we that live please must please to live.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.