Spring will still come, without you. Fruit will still be on the trees, without you. The tide will still come in, without you. If they can do without you so can I. So go back in your shell -- I'll do bloody well without you.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.