Dr. John Quotes

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

Revolt is the right of the people

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.

The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.