SNSD means the coming of the era of girls, it’s filled with hope. We wish to bring a generation of health and happiness.

Happiness is doubled when you share them together and sadness is halved when you share them together.

I wish food was falling from the sky.

I couldn’t stand in front of any camera, and I couldn’t go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still.

The first family is my kin. The other family is my SNSD family.

Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

We want our performance to be perfect, so even if I have to stay up to practice with my unnies, even if it’s really tiring, I know it is worth it

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.