Pastoral Resources

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Above all nations is humanity.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.