quotes of day Sunday, October 18, 2026

“If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.”

“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.”

“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

“It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.”

“Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.”

“Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?”

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”

“I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.”

“A word in earnest is as good as a speech.”

“Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.”

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.”

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

“Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.”

“Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.”