I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Zero G and I feel fine.

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

If I don't deliver a majority mandate in 2019, fire me.

I'm the author of my own misery.

My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.