Pastoral Resources

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.