Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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.

Keep your friends close, your enemies close and your family damn close because one of them is a backstabber

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.