When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.