If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.

If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire

Walking is easy for most people to adopt into their lifestyle, regardless of their current level of fitness. Plus is convenient and fun!

Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.

Your inner glow comes from the light of God, and your light can never be extinguished or soiled. You are eternally bright and beautiful.

Be an earth angel, and look for love behind the actions of everyone you meet today. Whenever you look for love, you will always find it.

I really think that people must understand that what you really think and feel and believe is what you're going to create in your world.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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