People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.