Pastoral Resources

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.