Pastoral Resources

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.