Dr. John Quotes

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.