The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Remark to Ernst Straus, one of his assistants.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

I believe that the civilisation into which India has evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestry. Rome went; Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become westernised; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

I've been put on this planet to protect wildlife and wildnerness areas, which in essence is gonna help humanity. I want to have the purest oceans, I want to be able to drink water straight outta that creek, I want to stop the ozone layer [from depleting], I want to save the world.