Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. (Goethe)

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. (William Shakespeare)

What is the world coming to? (Ozzy Osbourne)

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. ( Anais Nin)

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. (Albert Einstein )

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. (Adolf Hitler)

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first ( Mark Twain)

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mohandas Gandhi)

We are the world. (Friedrich Durrenmatt)

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
(Albert Einstein )

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ( Oscar Wilde)

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Goethe)

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. (Goethe)

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. (Mark Twain)

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. (Arthur Schopenhauer)