Pastoral Resources

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.