Pastoral Resources

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Keep up hope for a better economy, more jobs, better wages, affordable healthcare and all the issues we have brought into focus.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.