NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

We need to make science cool again.

The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things.

Be determined to fulfill your dreams.

...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

In every moment you are someone new and therefore can be and do anything you wish to be and do, totally unlimited, unrestrained, made in the image of the Infinite.

We know a little bit about a lot of things. Just enough to make us dangerous.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.