I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

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

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

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.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.