The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
They never raised a statue to a critic.
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
You can't be pessimistic, because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic, you'd go out of business.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as affectively as by bombs.
One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.
