a small step

i think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.
it's by the nature of his [most] deep inner soul ...
we're required to do these things just as a salmon is to swim upstream

it suddenly struck me: that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.
i [could] put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the [entire] planet Earth.

i didn't feel like a giant.
i felt very, very small.

Neil Armstrong