I still am. But the clock is ticking.

Candide, however, remains an optimist at heart, since it is all he knows.

Negotiations are in progress with several other accused persons, and I remain optimistic that some other guilty plea accords will be concluded shortly.

When asked at the Brown seminary in 1973, whether he was optimistic about the future, he answered, Oh, I think I'm basically optimistic about the human prospects in the long run.

When I was president of the American Psychological Association, they tried to media train me, and an encounter I had with CNN summarizes what I'm going to be talking about today, which is the eleventh reason to be optimistic.

In his 2004 report, the Secretary General strikes an optimistic note It is heartening to note that the number of ratifications of international human rights treaties has continued to increase, moving us closer to achieving one of the goals of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.