What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Space is going to be commonplace.

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree, ' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.