The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

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.

Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.

There should be a talent that goes along with being famous.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that.