Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Isn't Disney World a People Trap Operated by a Mouse?
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.