Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Employment is world slavery

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

It was fun to be clever.

Purchased experiences don't count.

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.