James Gould Cozzens
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't.