Pastoral Resources

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.