“Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.”

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.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.

It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.

Change starts with energy, outlook, belief, and the ability to notice the great things happening around you. 

You are not happy because you believe everything needs to happen right now but you forget everything happens with perfect timing.  

Have the courage to believe in yourself and watch magical things start to happen in your life.  

I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t even care what happens to me.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.