I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

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.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.