Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

The Holy Scripture is the Spirit of Holy One.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

The future of architecture is culture.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Getting the first win is very important. I think that takes a lot of pressure off going forward.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.