“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that ...” — Robert Staughton Lynd Quote

“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”

“Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”

“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”

“When FDR died in 1945, he was still paralyzed from the waist down. After he died, his portrait was put on the dime. Through his illness, he went out of his way to minimize his difficulties. Of the thousands of pictures taken of him, only two show him in a leg brace or a wheelchair.”

“I have always been able to overcome difficulties during my career.”