Pastoral Resources

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

It's an important fact of life, war.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.