quotes of day Tuesday, October 13, 2026

“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”

“A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.”

“I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.”

“How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.”

“I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.”

“If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.”

“The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.”

“Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.”

“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”

“It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessarily follow that... they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work.”

“One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”