John Quotes

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

The curriculum of the future will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Critics should find meaningful work.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.