“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
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This passage was used for Kazantzakis' epitaph: "Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβούμαι τίποτα, είμαι λεύτερος<!--[sic]-->."
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Variant translation: I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Nothing exists! Neither life nor death. I watch mind and matter hunting each other like two nonexistent erotic phantasms — merging, begetting, disappearing — and I say: "This is what I want!"
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free. [Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δεν φοβούμαι τίποτα, λυτρώθηκα από το νου κι από την καρδιά, ανέβηκα πιο πάνω, είμαι λεύτερος. ] This is what I want. I want nothing more. I have been seeking freedom.

“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist”
Marx quoted and translated by Engels (in an 1882 letter to Eduard Bernstein) about the peculiar Marxism which arose in France 1882. Original: "Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste" http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1882/letters/82_11_02.htm#356
Original: Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste.

“I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.”
September 1938. Quoted in "Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance" - Page 128 - by Joachim C. Fest - 1997

“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”

“I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”

“If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.”
Kudlow's Money Politics blog http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/2007/09/september-optimism.html, September 4, 2007.

“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”