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

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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.

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

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

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.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

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

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

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

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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

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

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

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

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

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

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘