Pastoral Resources

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.