Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man

I need a friend and you seemed nicest. I think you and I can have more fun than those fake people on the other side.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.