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

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

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

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

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

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

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

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

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?

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

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

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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

America is the greatest country in the world.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

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.

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.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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

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?

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.

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