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

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.

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.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on those who have opened their hearts to receive you!

The power to heal the scars begins with hope.

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

Movement for me is meditation.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.