The world remains ever the same.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

There are some loony people in this world!

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.