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.

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

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.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

She stepped back, staring up into my eyes. “You’ve given me hope.” She ran her hand up my chest. “I don’t know how to thank you for that.”I grinned. “You can start by taking my calls.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Don't Just Do Something: Stand There. Don't Just Stand There: Do Something.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.