We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

That's in the First Amendment?

Right now at the announce table we've got two kings and a queen, I'll let you figure out who's who.

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

You attract the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.