Pastoral Resources

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.