Pastoral Resources

Effective management always means asking the right question.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.