Pastoral Resources

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?"

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.