One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

Space is very unforgiving business

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

We gradually accepted each other with our strengths and weaknesses. And now, I think, we have started to enjoy our differences more

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.- from the story "De Composition

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.