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

Failure is not an option!

Failiure is not an option.

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

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.

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.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.

Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart, it's very special and very unique to me.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.