This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

You can't relive your life.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

Too many people when they get old think that they have to live by the calendar.

Exploration of course is going to new places but I dont think we go to new places just solely to say well weve been there and come back interesting though it may be. To me each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research basic research that cant be done before you go there.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

For all the advances in medicine there is still no cure for the common birthday.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind: Every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.