From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.