"I'm a very optimistic person. I always try to see the glass half full."

"I'm not going to pretend that I'm some sort of perfect, smooth, frictionless machine."

"I believe in the power of the individual."

"There are some people who think that the entire purpose of the human race is to go around apologising for things that happened a long time ago."

"I am a firm believer in the power of optimism."