We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

Why don't you light that candle ?

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

New morning, new moment of miracles.

Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party...

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

We are the arbiters of our destiny.

It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.