"We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be okay. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move, everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane."

“And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

“Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.”

Source : O.J. Brigance, Peter Schrager (2013). “Strength of a Champion: Finding Faith and Fortitude Through Adversity”, p.136, Penguin

“The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.”

“Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!”

“Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.”

Source : Hans Joachim Morgenthau, Kenneth W. Thompson (1977). “A Tribute to Hans Morgenthau: truth and tragedy : with an intellectual autobiography by Hans J. Morgenthau”, New Republic Books

“When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.”

“Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.”

“Never be afraid of the future, for it brings wonderful things.”