quotes of day Saturday, October 10, 2026

“For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.”

“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

“I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.”

“What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?”

“I only appear to be dead.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .”

“Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.”

“Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.”

“Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?”

“TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.”