I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber

And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.

At this point I thought 'We made it, ' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.

To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.

Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.

To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?