The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

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.

Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.

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.

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.

I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.