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“This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.”
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“The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.”
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“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”
Source : "Science in Russian Culture: A History to 1860". Book by Alexander Vucinich, June 1963.
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“Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.”
Source : "Jason Collins’ Courage in Coming Out" by Abbe Land, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013. 
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“Do you know that part on your resume where they ask if you have any special skills? Well, it's the thing where they ask you to list like, 'yoga, Spanish, water skiing, Photoshop.' I feel like I don't have any special skills.”
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“The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.”
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“It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.”
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“The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.”
