"Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good."
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"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
"And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in."
"If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world."
"At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in."
"If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream."
"The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff."
"The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world."
"Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that."
"We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world."
"I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love"
"If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings."
"It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility."
"In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world."
"Time is the soul of this world."
"It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world."
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?"
"There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."
"Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all."
"We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock."