“Where the pessimist sees danger hiding behind every back, the optimist sees friendship. Which is why, when we encounter coincidence, we often see conspiracy.”— Noah Hawley, Nathaniel Halpern, Narrator, Jon Hamm, imdb.com
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”— Bruce Lee, amazon.com
“Thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.”— Juan Gabriel Vásquez, amazon.com
“Toward the end of his life Max Weber was asked by a friend to whom he had been explaining the pessimistic conclusions of his sociological analysis: ‘But, if you think this way, why do you continue doing sociology?’ Weber’s reply is one of the most chilling statements I know in the history of Western…”— Peter L. Berger, amazon.com