City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

John Ruskin

Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

Lily Rabe

Discontent is the seed of ethics

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Howard Hodgkin

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Bill Gates

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

Samuel Johnson

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.

Mark Nepo

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

E. W. Howe

The greatest thing about being a scientist is you never have to grow up.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Robert Bolt

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

George Orwell