I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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.

May you be filled with fullness of grace.

If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?