Pastoral Resources

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.