People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

Who do I love? I love people who are easy to talk to.

History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.