Pastoral Resources

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.