Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Space is going to be commonplace.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

You have to want the book enough to read it.

A dream doesn't come true by itself... we must pull it.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.