It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear.

Every spirit seeks its sacred soul.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.