"You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost."

"I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues."

"I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory."

"Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available."

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."

"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth."

"Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness."

"Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness."

"Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war."

"To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."

"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

"From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel."

"The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement."

"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

"You can't become another person if you're not self-aware."

"Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."

"Within the space of 10 weeks, two courts in different continents and hemispheres have given a huge boost to the efforts by music and technology companies to forge a legal online music business."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."

"That's going to be left up to the commissioner and the rules committee. They would probably have to go back and look at some of those things that happened."

"That's going to be left up to the commissioner and the rules committee."