quotes of day Thursday, July 30, 2026

“Covering discretion with a coat of folly.”

“It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.”

“I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.”

“Literature is my Utopia”

“Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.”

“Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.”

“Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.”

“I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.”

“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived”

“You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.”

“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”

“Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”

“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

“I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.”

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.”

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”