John Quotes

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

You haven't taught until they've learned.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

Another name for peace is development.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Big breaks come from small fractures.

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?