Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

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.

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

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.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.