Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.