quotes of day Monday, August 10, 2026

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”

“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”

“The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.”

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

“You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.”

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.”

“I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.”

“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.”

“The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to help him locate it, and when the commissioners called him in to testify, he told them, essentially, that he couldn't remember what it looked like. Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way. But with this president, you have this nagging feeling that he's telling the truth.”

“One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”

“Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.”

“Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.”

“If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.”