Pastoral Resources

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.