You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration of feudalism and tribalism.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Within the U.S. the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here I fear the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

No matter how vast how total the failure of man here on earth the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that but man's front embraces the whole universe.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman the formula the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery and the projections of the Bush Administration.

Emigration forced or chosen across national frontiers or from village to metropolis is the quintessential experience of our time.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience a family bonding experience.

Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me if I have the opportunity to do it.

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

There should be a sympathy with freedom a desire to give it scope founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

When we learn from experience the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

I didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.