"Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood."
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"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals."
"The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man."
"If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good."
"Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness."
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want"
"Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world."
"Conquer yourself rather than the world."
"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself."
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another."
"A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one."
"If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful."
"If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution."
"I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood."
"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world."
"The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind."