“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.”

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

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.

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.

After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.

We get to decide what the future of this country looks like. We get to choose hope.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I keep one eye on the path I didn’t choose every day.