I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.

I touch the future. I teach.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

Reach for the stars.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interest in history and space is a unique opportunity.

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.

When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.