“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...
“Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals
“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses