The Martian

"I'm going to survive this. Failure is not an option I'm considering."

"Every day is a test. I just have to keep passing."

"I have to accept what I can't change and focus on what I can."

"I'm the greatest botanist on Mars. That's not really a competitive field right now."

"They'll come for me. I just have to keep living."

"Trust the process. Trust yourself."

"I should probably do science."

"Every problem starts out as a catastrophe and ends with a solution."

"I need to think like a scientist, not an emotional human."

"The thing about space is it doesn't care about your feelings."

"I'm alone here, but I'm not giving up. Not today. Not ever."

"Every day I survive is a victory."

"I've got to work with what I have. No excuses."

"I owe these people everything. The least I can do is stay alive."

"The Hermes crew trusted me. I can't let them down."

"I'm going to have to push this thing to its limits and hope it doesn't break."

"I'm alive, and I'll stay alive. I need to survive."

"I've been a botanist, an engineer, a maintenance man, a meteorologist, a translator, a doctor, and a whole lot of other things."

"I'm in a Chinese lab. Pretty great for someone who's supposed to be dead."

"Every problem has a solution. You just have to be creative enough to find it."

"The temperature is about -60 Celsius. Everything I need to survive is... well, nothing is nearby. But I've got time."

"I'm confident I'll make it. Not sure if I'll like what I become in the process."

"I have plenty of time and a lot of room to experiment."

"Potatoes are a no-brainer. I've got Martian soil, which is more or less a blank slate."

"I'm gonna have to live here. Might as well make it nice."

"You just have to deal with it and move on."

"I'm not gonna die here. I'm gonna get off this rock."

"Space: it's disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."

"At some point, everything's gonna go south on you and you're gonna say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work."

"I started thinking about my crewmates and how much I'd miss them. Now I don't."