“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.”

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Start at the end and work back.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

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.

What broke you, won’t heal you.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.