Pastoral Resources

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.