"The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpr…"

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put my thumb over it and I could make the Earth disappear. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

"I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did."

"I don't think there's any single person who could have done it."

"It's a great beginning to a new era."