Pastoral Resources

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.