My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

I'm 5'11, so when I wear heels, it's definitely a really good view that I have. I'm, like, 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.