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

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.

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

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.

After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.

As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

Part of my success is because I'm very old-fashioned.