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.

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.

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

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

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.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Secrets are lies by another name.

As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.

Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.