Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Strong leaders cannot tolerate weak leaders above them.

When the heart is beautiful, its light shines through the eyes, vocal tones and actions of its master. True beauty is not in the body, but in the heart of the beholder.

I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children

He was every angel and every devil.

Soul of a victim tends to prove her innocence.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.