Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.

Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.