Pastoral Resources

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.