Pastoral Resources

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.