Pastoral Resources

Language is the dress of thought.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.