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.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

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

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.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

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.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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

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 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.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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

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

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food 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?‘

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.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

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

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.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The world remains ever the same.

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

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

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

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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

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

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

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

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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.

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

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.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

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.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

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