The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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.

The world remains ever the same.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

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

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.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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.

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

Music has the power to inspire the world.

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

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

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

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

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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

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

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.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

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

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

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 cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

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

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

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

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.

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

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

America is the greatest country in the world.

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

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

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.