While I might not count by virtue of being a convert---that is an old joke that I found funny when I first heard it and still find humor in it. There are far too many things in this world that could be offensive, but in my world that is simply humor with no offense taken.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis