“It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.”

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

Research is creating new knowledge.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.

People love conspiracy theories.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

I wrote many poems about her and held her so close to my heart that she did not even knew a place there.

You keep me at a distance when all I want to have you is close.

The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

I don’t want to show my body to the ones, who often close their eyes, when it’s time to praise the beauty of my mind and soul.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.