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

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

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

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

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

Nature does nothing in vain.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

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

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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.

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

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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

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.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

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

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

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

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.