“Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.”— Hyman G. Rickover Related Quotes “It’s like someone took the darkness of the universe and put it into your eyes… You became a slave to the monsters living in you. You were light, but now you allow it be seen.”— Kenza Slaoui “He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger’s name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain.”— Stephen King “It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.”— Susan Sarandon