Pastoral Resources

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.