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

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.

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.

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

I think I just had an evilgasm.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.