Pastoral Resources

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.