Pastoral Resources

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.