Pastoral Resources

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

French was my first language.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.