Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

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 fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.