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

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

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

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.

I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I’m extremely comfortable with my style.

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.