Pastoral Resources

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?