quotes of day Tuesday, June 30, 2026

“I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.”

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.”

“The leopard does not change his spots.”

“I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.”

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.”

“The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.”

“I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.”

“Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.”

“It is a sin to judge any man by his post”

“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”

“We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.”