When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax.

Me and Kylie are sisters, but not everything we can always do together. She's not trying to be a model. She's trying to be more like a personality. We're trying to kind of separate ourselves - not in a bad way!

Moderation in all things

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

I want to help people. That's it.

I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.