Pastoral Resources

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.