Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts.

I am proud of (knowing) who I am.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!