David Logan

“Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.”
― Colum McCann

“Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate.”
― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.”
― Jack London