Pastoral Resources

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.