Now who wants to be an Optimist :)

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903

Not meant for me !!!!! :)

"I have more respect for a fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing."

- Thomas Alva Edison

Ingenuity of Ayn Rand

"I like cigarettes. . . . I like to think of fire held in a man‘s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his own expression."

Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, 1957)