Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.

Most of the things that stop us aren’t things that we can’t do, but things we refuse to learn.

All cats look gray in the dark.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?