Pastoral Resources

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

When I was a young man, I had a mentor on women and he said when you meet a woman that you think you like, don't ask her for a drink. Take her out for a bowl of soup. Because a woman who can enjoy a bowl of soup is bound to be more interesting.