A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

You can get what you want.

Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.

The ghosts you chase you never catch.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.