I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

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

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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.

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

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

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.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

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

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

God made me and broke the mold.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

It’s a funny old world.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

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

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.