We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Zero G and I feel fine.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

How was I supposed to know ‘lucked out’ means ‘I got screwed over’ in Australian?

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

I try to update as much as possible. You don't want to be in the past.