The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

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

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

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.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Never take anything for granted.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

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

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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.

I am the freest author in the world.

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.

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

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.