I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.

The Retrofire rockets seem to be responding well

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

If you’ve got to think about it you probably shouldn’t do it

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.