I'm not at all like Gilbert myself. I don't have his indestructible, albeit misplaced, self-confidence and unwavering faith that the next scheme will work out brilliantly no matter how disastrously all its predecessors have.

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good,

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good. They've been exposed to so many dire, bad half-hour shows that the expectation is that any half-hour comedy is going to be the same stale stuff we've seen. So there's a disinclination to sample them.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Once You lose love, hope, faith, and confidence in yourself, you lose the people who care about you.