The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Zero G and I feel fine.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

I lost myself in finding you, nothing has made me feel so wasted ever.

It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.