quotes of day Thursday, October 1, 2026

“When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.”

“With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.”

“A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.”

“I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”

“We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.”

“Six feet of dirt make all men equal.”

“He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.”

“Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.”

“One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark”

“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”

“On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.”

“What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.”

“Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.”

“Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.”