“Fear connotes something that interferes with what youre doing.”

“To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.”

“I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.”

“The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.”

“I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.”

“An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.”

“Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.”

“Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.”

“My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.”