To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

Failure is not an option!

Failiure is not an option.

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

There is no achievement without risk.

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

Remember, you're the most loving child of this universe. Universe has to wait billions of years to get impregnated with you. You are the joy and creator of your universe.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

I don't do a lot of dating. I guess it's kind of like everyone is always trying to set me up with somebody, so we go out and hang out at a club or somewhere. I think dates are weird.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.