Pastoral Resources

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.