Pastoral Resources

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Leave women to find their sphere.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.