What makes an optimist differ from a pessimist is this: A pessimist with, say, a large family of cats, and hence a lot of mouths to feed, thinks, "Someday I will get around to downsizing them," whereas an optimist with, say, an equally large family of cats, and hence an equally large number of mouths to feed, thinks, "Someday I will own a cat food factory."
-- 10th July 2012
