Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page And be alone on earth as I am now.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high simple and useful life.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky from the earth from a scrap of paper from a passing shape from a spider's web.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Like a welcome summer rain humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth the air and you.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
If you read back in the Bible the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
When you start about family about lineage and ancestry you are talking about every person on earth.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I have an almost religious zeal not for technology per se but for the Internet which is for me the nervous system of mother Earth which I see as a living creature linking up.
The meek shall inherit the Earth but not its mineral rights.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about he goes off and gets married.
After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.
They claim this mother of ours the Earth for their own use and fence their neighbors away from her and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy it will in the end not produce food either.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive it isn't.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
Happiness exists on earth and it is won through prudent exercise of reason knowledge of the harmony of the universe and constant practice of generosity.