John Quotes

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

May you always be each other's best friend, May your mutual love continue to be so May your successful marriage continue to thrive May love flourish, prosper, bloom and grow

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

What is right is more important than who is right.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.

Nobody is a real loser-until they start blaming somebody else.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.

Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

The ball is round, make sure you pass it around

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

Even the young are killing each other.

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Whatever God wants is fine by me. . . . I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

God gives me unconditional love. I'm going to give it to my family and my friends and the people around me.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.