Pastoral Resources

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.