Pastoral Resources

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

The wages of pedantry is pain.