Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Spend enough time around success and failure and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful' we will say 'If government spending prevents pain why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain just stay on the track we are on.'

Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Over and over we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.