John Quotes

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

I guess there are never enough books.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

An answer is always a form of death.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Experience is a great teacher.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.