The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

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.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

You pay a price for everything in life.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.