Tag: optimism quotes

Oct 13, 2026

“The world is a lot better than it looks when you’re watching the 24-hour news cycle, that’s for sure.” — Karl Bushby | Quote of the Day

Karl Bushby, the English adventurer who set off from the southern tip of Chile in 1998 and is walking the final miles home to Hull 28 years later — the first person to travel an unbroken path around the world without motorised transport — on why three decades on the road left him trusting people more, not less: as individuals, he says, we are the best of the best, and the 24-hour news cycle is a poor mirror of the strangers who actually kept him going.

Karl Bushby

Sep 16, 2026

Author Spotlight: Michael J. Fox — The 'Incurable Optimist' Who Turned a Parkinson's Diagnosis Into the World's Largest Research Mission

A deep dive on Michael J. Fox — the Canadian-born 'army brat' who left high school in eleventh grade, sold his guitar, and moved to Los Angeles at eighteen, where a middle initial borrowed to dodge a Screen Actors Guild conflict became one of the most recognizable names in the world; the star of Family Ties and the Back to the Future trilogy who was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at twenty-nine, hid it for seven years, and went on to found the Michael J. Fox Foundation, now the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research; his defining reflections on family, acceptance, gratitude, and optimism; and the legacy of the five-time Emmy winner who accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 14, 2026, to a standing ovation — the 'incurable optimist' who keeps insisting that gratitude makes optimism sustainable, and that accepting a truth is not the same as surrendering to it.

Michael J. Fox