Pastoral Resources

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

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.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.