Pastoral Resources

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.