We have to earn our Wings every day.

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Astronauts: space activists.

You need to live a life of service to make your life an effective one

History judges a leader by results. Let my results do the talking.

They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.