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.

I feel fine. How about you?

Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.

You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.