If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Walk the path your heart beats faster on.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.