We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie

Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.

It was the calm before the storm, and holy crap, my bones knew it was going to be the storm of my life.

Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Yesterday in New York City, Donald Trump officially changed his political affiliation from Republican to Independent. And Donald's hair has switched from pelt to carpet sample.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.