Pastoral Resources

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.