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TodayOct 31, 2026

Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask... while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.
Steve Maraboli · reserved for this day every year

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Held for a date rather than drawn at random. A quote with a year runs once; one without runs every year, and an exact date beats a recurring one on the day they collide.

  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

    C.S. LewisJan 1, every year

  • Senza tentazioni, senza onore.

    Italian ProverbMar 14, every year

  • When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

    Frederic BastiatApr 15, every year

  • The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more

    The NotebookAug 10, every year

  • It was the calendar that the mayor of New York had erected last year on the top of a building, so that citizens might tell the day of the month as they told the hours of the day, by glancing up at a public tower. A white rectangle hung over the city, imparting the date to the men in the streets below. In the rusty light of this evening's sunset, the rectangle said: September 2.

    Ayn Rand, Atlas ShruggedSep 2, every year

  • I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things: First, the streets weren't paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all; and third, I was expected to pave them.

    Ellis IslandOct 15, every year

  • Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask... while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.

    Steve MaraboliOct 31, every year · today

  • Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

    Edna FerberNov 1, every year

  • Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers' holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

    Ayn RandNov 20, every year

Tom's Favorite Quotes23

  • I am a great believer in Luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

    Coleman Cox

  • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

    Albert Einstein

  • Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

    Peter Drucker

  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

    Donald Knuth

  • If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

    Proverb

  • Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away.

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

    Linus Torvalds

  • You can't manage what you can't measure.

    Peter Drucker

  • Hope is not a strategy.

    Traditional (SRE)

  • A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.

    George S. Patton

  • The only way to go fast is to go well.

    Robert C. Martin

  • Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. If a man values productive work, his happiness is the measure of his success in the service of his life.

    Ayn Rand

  • The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

    Ayn Rand

  • You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

    Blaise Pascal

  • Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid.

    John Wayne (attributed)

  • If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

    Albert Einstein (attributed)

  • If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

    Lewis Carroll (paraphrased)

  • Surround yourself with people who will leap out of the dugout should you ever charge the mound.

    Unknown

  • Ain't no sense worrying. If you have no control over something, ain't no sense worrying about it — you have no control over it anyway. If you do have control, why worry? So either way, there ain't no sense worrying.

    Mickey Rivers

  • Do Your Job

    Bill Belichick