I’m always open to new ideas, within reason

You trust me or not but I feel that when the reason is actually right most of the time, usually like I do if the reason is right around nine out of ten times, then it will always be impotent

If you don’t know me then I would like to tell you that I am a kind of man who always believes in the instinct rather than in the reasons.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a… crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks… and it required… flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

Trees, in particular, were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have, but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.