John Quotes

Never say anything unless you have to.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

The best of all is God with us

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

Untold millions are still untold.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

Be prepared and be honest.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

I am at best on the C list for Pope.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.

Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.