Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

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.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

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

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

You don't make any money sitting in traffic.

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

The best proof of love is trust.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.