Pastoral Resources

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.