Pastoral Resources

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.