Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.