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.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Our best thoughts come from others.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Imagination rules the world.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.