"Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time." ― Norman Cousins Topic(s): Trust More From Norman Cousins "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." "The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny." "A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life." More In Trust "Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn’t trust me."― Joey Skaggs "Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood."― Stanislaw Lec "War’s dirty little secret is that some men love it."― Kathryn Bigelow