There is no achievement without risk.

Failure is not an option!

Failiure is not an option.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

Love or hate me, I stay hate free They say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me

I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.