You're always under the microscope, you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

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.

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

Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.

Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

I'm not boring to be around. Something will always happen.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.