If you’ve been and you still feel that way after you come back, please, let’s have a conversation.— Gayle King addressing critics of her space flight, suggesting that personal experience should inform their opinions.

There are always one or two idiots in the stadium, that's not a problem.— Alexander Zverev comments on the incident with a spectator during his match.

"I appeal to the warring parties: call a ceasefire, release the hostages and come to the aid of a starving people that aspires to a future of peace!"— Pope Francis speaks about the conflicts in Gaza and the humanitarian situation.

It’s horrifying and terrifying. I'm watching my country be destroyed really fast and I feel hopeless.— Teri Lenfest, a 79-year-old docent at California Academy of Sciences and San Francisco Zoo who showed up to the San Francisco protest.

If you have evidence, take it to the court. That’s where we litigate these things, and otherwise just shut up on social media.— Senator Chris Van Hollen, accusing members of the Trump administration of litigating through social media.

We're not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end.— Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, stated this after meeting with European and Ukrainian leaders in Paris.

"We know what we are defending. We know what we are fighting for."— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a social media video urging Ukrainians not to give up hope that peace will one day return.

"The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut. They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria."— Sean Duffy, the Secretary of the US Department of Transportation, shared his thoughts on social media regarding astronaut identification.

It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks.— May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist, commenting on Harvard's response to the Trump administration's demands.

"Welcome to the Ohtani Family! I am so grateful to my loving wife who gave birth to our healthy beautiful daughter."— Shohei Ohtani, as he announced the birth of his daughter via social media.

"The impressive thing about going from a 5k to a half marathon is really a hardware robustness problem."— Alan Fern, a robotics professor at Oregon State University, explains the challenges in developing humanoid robots.

I still remember as if it were 30 minutes ago, coming here with Hillary to that memorial service and saying: ‘You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything. You have certainly not lost America, and we will be with you for as many tomorrows as it takes.’— Bill Clinton, during his keynote address at the remembrance ceremony in Oklahoma City.

It’s an injustice.— Barry Knittle, 64, a manager at an engineering firm who lives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., expressed his concerns regarding the political situation.