We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.