I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.