Pastoral Resources

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Necessity does the work of courage.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care."

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.