"We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in."

“I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?”

“I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.”

“It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.”

“When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.”

“The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.”

Source : "Who Do You Trust with Your Money?". Ben Bernanke's speech before the U.S. House Budget Committee in Washington, D.C., www.minneapolisfed.org. September 1, 2009.

“But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

“Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.”

“If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!”

Source : "Mankind's first giant leap". www.economist.com. August 3, 2011.