To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding.

As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long ways from doing that yet, and I think we have many, many decades before we could be able to even consider something like that.

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.