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

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

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.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Money is a kind of poetry.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

All the world loves a good loser.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.