Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

A human life is poetry written in our heart.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

I love doing concert music.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it