I don't have any nicknames.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

We need to make science cool again.

There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.

The open road, at night, looks like life.There's only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Like I'm going to pass up an opportunity to smack your cousin.

A man's library is a sort of harem.