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

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

I saw for the first time the earth’s shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. The feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I’m used to it.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free, so other people would be also free.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

If people aren’t calling you crazy, you aren’t thinking big enough.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.