Pastoral Resources

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.