Pastoral Resources

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.