If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

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.

Human mind and body metals appear to be lost through radio frequency exposure and I call this hypothesis: Internal Human Corrosion

How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

When Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark came out, I got to go to Japan and Australia and France, Italy, Germany, everywhere with the movie. That was great, because I love traveling.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.