Pastoral Resources

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

The beginning is always today.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.