"We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known."

“The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.”

“In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.”

Source : Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.”

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”

“I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com

“I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor (Ganger)". "Doctor Who" The Almost People, May 28, 2011.

“What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.”

Source : Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

“I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.”