Singer on Hand-Wringers

Today, Bastille Day, is the birthday of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), the Polish writer  who captured the doomsayers and the hand-wringers quite capably when he said

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet

For those who castigate religious believers as unthinking zombies, he added that

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Finally, for those who carp on about "ça ne sert à rien", he wrote

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.