So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.

Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard.

That which you fix your heart to, believing with all your desire you will get, you will.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.