There is still no cure for the common birthday.
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.
An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.
I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.
The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
The time will come when we permit more people in space.
You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.
Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
You can't relive your life.
One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.
