It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.

In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.

Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.

When a collection agency is threatening you with their daily phone calls, the last thing you would remember is the fun you had lavishing your money. Please be wise with your spending habits.

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge, " Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.