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

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.

Tell me what you like, tell me how you feel, tell me which stuff are your favourite, what you enjoy doing and so far I can give you one well written book based on this stuff!?

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

People ask me so many questions.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]