Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

When you're a little different than others, it takes a little more time to fit in. If you really want to be there, there are no ingredients you need other than effort, perseverance and teamwork.

A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

Some people will always be volunteers to explore, and it is, in my mind, a privilege.

I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

Worrying doesn’t change anything.Focus your energy on the outcomeyou do want and then do whatyou can to make it happen.

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

I try to keep myself out of the unnecessary bullshit.

All human beings have magic in them. The secret is to know how to use this magic.