Pastoral Resources

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.