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

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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

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

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

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

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

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.

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

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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?

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.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

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

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

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 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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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

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 time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

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

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

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

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

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

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.

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

The world remains ever the same.

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.

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.

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

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

There are some loony people in this world!

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

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.