Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
“Generally speaking, I belong to the optimist camp.”
Source: "China and US economies 'inseparable,' Wang Qishan tells Davos" in Nikkei Asia https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-and-US-economies-inseparable-Wang-Qishan-tells-Davos (24 January 2019)
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Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1, "Sociology as an Individual Pastime."

Often quoted as "Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.", e.g, Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 112.
Faith for Living (1940)
As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 119
1960s

“I feel honored to belong to a generation that was a propitious victim of state terrorism.”
On signing the quoted in An article in the web site of Disappeared Persons 06/02/2007 by http://www.desaparecidos.org/bbs/archives/003331.html (6 February 2007)
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Middlebury College Address (2004)
Context: Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It’s there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)