I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.