To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.

The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.