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

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 feel fine. How about you?

The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.

... Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.