"Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes."

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

“Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.”

“By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.151, Crown Business

“Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.”

Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

“It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.”

“Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tavis Smiley from Jul 20, 2010

“Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.”

“I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.”