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.

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.

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

I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,

All that pain of craving somewhere deep inside which lies in wait for one glimpse.

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.