A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

When you're a little different than others, it takes a little more time to fit in. If you really want to be there, there are no ingredients you need other than effort, perseverance and teamwork.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

Some people will always be volunteers to explore, and it is, in my mind, a privilege.

I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.