Quotes from Frank Borman

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

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.

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.

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.