Pastoral Resources

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.