Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

I love trying new things.

I always entertain great hopes.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Not all those who wander are lost.

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

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.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

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.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

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

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

We’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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.

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

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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