Pastoral Resources

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.