Pastoral Resources

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

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.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

From caring comes courage.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.