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.

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.

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.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.”Touched by an Alien

You cannot give up. We are Gargoyle, and we are strong.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.