You need to live a little bit outside your comfort zone because you can be even more than you dream of.

I think the biggest advice that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.

I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special.

I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Paint the essential character of things.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.