Pastoral Resources

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.