You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.

Let not miracle be your focus but be strong in diligence which is an eternal virtue.

We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

Come with me somewhere. Please. I've been waiting eight months to talk to you

Movement eases turmoil.

You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me… like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.