Pastoral Resources

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

We in middle age require adventure.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Music is the soul of language.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.