Pastoral Resources

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.