I could have gone on flying through space forever.

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

I feel fine. How about you?

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love something to do and something to hope for.

You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

PETA. I would make everyone eat raw meat. [why] because I could.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.