"I could have gone on flying through space forever."

"I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let's preserve and enhance this beauty, not destroy it!"

"When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear."

"Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of any one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human develop…"

"What beauty. What a wonderful world!"