"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

"I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person, but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for 5 years and another person for another 5 years."

"I know that in my life my girlfriends are one of the most important relationships I have going through the good times and the bad times."

"I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls."

"Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that."

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space."

"I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights."

"Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official."

"Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time."

"Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars."

"It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers."

"My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades."

"I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s."

"I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today."

"There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again."

"Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties."

"The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term."

"My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway."

"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be."

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."

"When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn."

"I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause."

"They double-covered him a couple of times, actually, so it was the right choice not to throw it to him. But he's a guy we need to have involved in the offense."

"I tell my kids that a few times, too."