People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.
When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed. . . Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.
Houston, we've had a problem here.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.