That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Love is deep spiritual affection in two souls but one spirit.

I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever.

Don’t try to live to make an impression on anyone. Accept God’s provision for your life. Don’t live or act beyond the measure of the Grace of Christ upon your life.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.