Pastoral Resources

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.