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We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

The first view of the Earth is magical... in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred. You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.