My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

I don’t make sense yadda yadaaaaa

At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

Everyone runs their own race.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.