Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.

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.

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.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?

Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.