The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.
Immigration of people has been important for the story of this planet, to make what is today.
The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
The loss of global biological diversity is advancing at an unprecedented pace.
Asia is the continent of origination; Europe the continent of differentiation; and America the continent of reunions.
In the summer Regent's Park is one of the best places in the world with every nationality playing every sport.
I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.
If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.
In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.
We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.
Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
I have kids from everywhere, not just Australia, and they want to be like Redfoo. They love Redfoo and I love them.
