I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
