I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.