We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

There are always people who are inspired by you, just because you are who you are.

All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics