optimistic quotes

If I was not optimistic, I would not be an architect.

-J(acobus) J(ohannes) P(ieter) Oud
Quoted in the NewYork Times, 4 Dec1994.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Misalliance, preface.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

- Miguel de Unamuno
  TheTragic Sense of Life.