Pastoral Resources

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.