But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

Why don't you light that candle ?

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

Interdependency follows independence.