The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

You have to bind the devil and command him to set these people free.

One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.

No one is only one thing, my dear.

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.