The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

We need to make science cool again.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Be aware of people who are standing in your circle who don't smile when you win.

Take sincere joy in the success of others. Being happy for them will make you feel incredible about YOU!

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.