Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

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

Astronauts: space activists.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

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