When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.