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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

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

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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

The world remains ever the same.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

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.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

There is so much that people take for granted.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.