We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

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.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.