Pastoral Resources

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.