Pastoral Resources

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.