I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.
I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something you can't buy with all the money in the world, that feeling.
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.
In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
Further, it would take one of those impossible coincidences that the Modern Liberal relies on so heavily to explain how it is that the two most religious nations in the Western World - the United States and Israel - are also arguably the world's two most scientifically and technologically advanced.
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand
We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.