Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“I felt cold just thinking about that, just how things come to an end, how death is subsumed in the pull of daily life,… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has profited by… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“I guess the basic reason I run is that I think a body, like a brain, should be used, stretched, forced to its limits...I… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“The great truth was that we were not the center of things, or others’ lives, but only so in our own mind’s eye. We… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it. — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“It is not to political leaders our people must look, but to themselves. Leaders are but individuals, and individuals are imperfect, liable to error… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“The Treaty is already vindicating itself. The English Die-hards said to Mr. Lloyd George and his Cabinet: ‘You have surrendered’. Our own Die-hards said… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
