When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Astronauts: space activists.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the Earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape - it makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away, it really is a small planet.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.