Pastoral Resources

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.