The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.