A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional. . . My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.
We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.
There are no amateurs in the world of children.
The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.
The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.
Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.