Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Fire is next akin to smoke.