If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

I never meant it, " he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

I give every page a lot of thought. Probably too much, these days. At the end of the day, you've gotta trust your gut and hope for the best.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.

Life is short, but the years are long.