Dr. John Quotes

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

A government of laws, and not of men.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

The past is more than a memory.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

The best prophet of the future is the past.