We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Bjork

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Ogden Nash

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney J. Harris

When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?

Wolf and Page

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

John Green

It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars

Mark Simpson

Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

Terence

When a man is just and firm in his purpose,The citizens burning to approve a wrongOr the frowning looks of a tyrantDo not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:Should the heavens crack and tumble down,As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Horace, Odes 3.3, translated by

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Michael Bloomberg

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Jodi Picoult