The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

But that's how memory works, " Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

After all is said and done, sit down.

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

I feel like I'm the winner. I really do.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing to worry about.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.