It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

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

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

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.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

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

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

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

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.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

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

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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

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

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

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

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

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.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

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

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.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

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