John Quotes

Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.

Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.

Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.