“I was young enough to be an optimist.”— Mike Mussina Related Quotes “There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance”— Michel de Montaigne “I mean, that’s a sad day in America when you’re recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.”— Russell Pearce “Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin’ goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin’Turnin’ from the past, at last and all I’ve left behind”— Ray Lamontagne