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

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

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

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

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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.

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.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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.

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

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

There are some loony people in this world!

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

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

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

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

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.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

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

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

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

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work – that’s Prince to me.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

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.

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

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

I am just one human being.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

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

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.