There’s a lot to say about the latest headlines at UT, and there’s plenty more being said in the stories themselves. Here are some sayings found in recent UT news.

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“Listen hard to yourself and what really motivates you and excites you and moves you and makes you feel like you’re the luckiest person in the world for having a job like this.”

—Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, answering a student’s question about how to choose a career after delivering the College of Law’s Rose Lecture in October

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“This means water likely exists on Mercury and on the asteroids such as Vesta or Eros further within our solar system. These planetary bodies have very different environments, but all have potential to produce water.”

—Yang Liu, research assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, who was on a team of researchers who determined that solar wind is the origin of water on the surface of the moon