I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.

Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important factor, not the strength of the legs.