I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Zero G and I feel fine.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously it's no fun if you do take it seriously it breaks your heart.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.