My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita’s, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.