Pastoral Resources

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.