Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

America is another name for opportunity.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people – for a long time, anyway – are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

We’re working on New Glenn, which is our orbital vehicle, but we have in our mind’s eye an even bigger vehicle called New Armstrong.