I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone – the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.