You need to be a person who makes things happen.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

Happiness comes towards those which believe in him

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.