There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

We have to earn our Wings every day.

Astronauts: space activists.

Setbacks are what build character. They are what separate the lucky from the truly successful.

Americans cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.